Elena Zhang

Master of Financial Engineering Student at Columbia University

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Research Assistant at Columbia University
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    - Developed an agent-based limit order book (LOB) simulation to study endogenous flash crash dynamics arising from interacting autonomous AI agents - Modeled heterogeneous agents (market makers, liquidity takers, and noise traders) operating in a continuous double auction with price-time priority - Quantified market impact through spread dynamics, depth depletion, volatility clustering, and recovery time analysis (Mentored by Professor Agostino Capponi and Professor Mehmet Caner)

  • Wealth Management Intern at Morgan Stanley
    Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos

  • Private Equity Intern at Icarus Fund LLC.
    Apr 2025 - May 2025 · 2 mos

  • Quantitative Strategy Research Intern at Yuanda Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    May 2024 - Jul 2024 · 3 mos